History/Gov/Geo
San Juan Hill was the hill in Cuba where Teddy Roosevelt and this group led a charge during the Spanish-American war.
The Rough Riders
Though at first he did charcoal caricature paintings in Le Havre, what Impressionist painter would later become famous for his paintings of Rouen Cathedral and Water Lilies?
Claude Monet
Give the second derivative of: 4x^4 + 3x^2
48x^2 + 6
Name the Shirley Jackson short story which tells of gruesome human sacrifice in a seemingly ordinary small American town.
The Lottery
This American scientist pioneered the study of chemical bonding and helped advance the understanding of molecular structure. Name this man, the only individual to have won two unshared Nobel prizes in separate categories.
Linus Pauling
Named the "Iron Lady of India" and the daughter of Jawaharlal Nehru, this premier politician served as India's first and only female Prime Minister. Her tenure included major historical milestones such as the 1971 Bangladesh Liberation War and the highly controversial 21-month nationwide State of Emergency.
Indira Gandhi
This fresco, located in the Stanza della Segnatura in the Apostolic Palace of the Vatican, depicts a gathering of great classical philosophers. Featuring portraits of Michelangelo as Heraclitus and the artist himself looking out from the bottom right corner, name this masterpiece by Raphael
The School of Athens
The ratio of two positive numbers is 3 to 8 and their product is 864. Give the two numbers.
18, 48
Born in Savannah, Georgia in 1925 Flannery O'Connor wrote two novels and thirty-two short stories during her lifetime. Name her well-known work in which a dysfunctional family takes a road trip from Georgia toward Florida. Manipulated by the self-absorbed grandmother, they detour down a dirt road, get into a car wreck, and cross paths with an escaped convict known as The Misfit along with his two accomplices.
A Good Man is Hard to Find
Work on an anti-influenza vaccine led to this scientist’s best-known discovery. Name this man who, in 1952, developed the first polio vaccine.
Jonas Salk
This mountain range stretches across parts of Pennsylvania, Maryland, West Virginia, and New York and is part of the larger Appalachian system. Rich in coal and timber resources, it gave its name to a river that joins the Monongahela at Pittsburgh to form the Ohio River. Name this mountain range.
Allegheny Mountains
Her Paris salon was frequented by writers including Ernest Hemingway and Thornton Wilder as well as painters such as Picasso and Matisse. Name this American, a respected writer in her own right.
Gertrude Stein
If Thomas can wash his car in 5 hours and Susan can wash the same car in 3 hours, how long would it take for them to wash the car together.
15/8 of an hour
This Nigerian author made history in 1986 by becoming the first Black African to win the Nobel Prize in Literature. Name this author of Death and the King's Horseman.
Wole Soyinka
Sharing the 1903 Nobel Prize for Physics with Pierre and Marie Curie, name the French physicist whose experiments with uranium led to his discovery of radioactivity and for whom the SI unit of radioactivity is named.
Antoine Becquerel
Identify the infamous and highly controversial United States military officer who, in 1876, led 210 men to their deaths when they attacked a large group of Lakota Sioux, Cheyenne, and Arapaho tribes at the Little Bighorn River in Montana.
George Custer
One detail in this painting shows a tiny, faint flower blooming just above a broken sword held by a severed arm. On its far right, a figure with upraised arms is trapped inside a burning building, while on the far left, a screaming mother weeps over her dead child. Name this monumental, anti-war masterpiece painted by Pablo Picasso.
Guernica
In triangle ABC, angle A = 61 degrees and angle B = 90 degrees. What is the measure of the exterior angle of angle C?
151 degrees
A character in this play delivers the "All the world's a stage" speech, which breaks down human life into seven ages. Another character in this comedy disguises herself as the pageboy Ganymede while in exile. Set partly in the Forest of Arden and featuring couples such as Orlando and Rosalind, name this pastoral comedy by William Shakespeare.
As You Like It
Before this form of reproduction occurs, a bacterial cell copies its DNA and elongates. The process then produces two genetically identical daughter cells. Name this asexual reproductive process common in prokaryotes.
Binary Fission
This thinker argued that in the "state of nature," life is "solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short". In his most famous work, he compared an all-powerful sovereign to a biblical sea monster, arguing that people must enter a social contract to escape a "war of every man against every man". Name this English philosopher who wrote Leviathan.
Thomas Hobbes
The background features the cliffs of Cape Creus along the coast of Catalonia, while a cluster of ants swarms a closed brass pocket watch in the bottom left corner. A distorted, flesh-like human profile lies across the center of the canvas, draped under one of several drooping, fluid timepieces. Name this iconic 1931 Surrealist painting featuring melting clocks, created by Salvador Dalí.
The Persistence of Memory
A kayaker completed 3/5 of her trip up the Amazon after paddling 174 miles. How far does she have left to go?
116 miles
This author created the fictional Yoknapatawpha County, the setting for works such as As I Lay Dying and Light in August. In one of his novels, the mentally disabled Benji Compson narrates part of the story, which also features the stream-of-consciousness perspective of his suicidal brother Quentin. Name this American author of The Sound and the Fury.
William Faulkner
This phylum contains animals that do not have mouths but instead have tiny pores in their outer walls through which water is drawn. What is this phylum, typically referred to as sponges?
Porifera